The subsistence marketplace initiative is a marvelous endeavor, it is a program that combines three critical aspects well – research, action, and communication -- which are so essential for research impact. Its bottom up approach is sound. The challenge is scaling up for big impact and bring systemic change in an environment of deepening and entrenched inequality. This is essential for our collective survival: current practices and greed have resulted in economies collapsing in the western world with huge consequences for the choices we make, for our values, ethics, and vision of the kind of world we want to live in.
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